Microsoft Security Patch causes Musescore font error

Confirmed with WinXP pro SP3
I can't download the 2 newer Windows nightly builds.

Working OK here with R40e5376

My system is a Sony Vaio running 32bit Windows XP Pro SP3

Could this be a 64bit system only problem?

I will check on my other 32 bit XP Pro SP3 system which installed this update last night.

My Desktop PC is also running the same Nightly Build OK

That too is a 32 bit machine so this looks to be a 64bit problem.

BTW the two latest nightly builds for WIndows are generating a 404 not found error when you try to download them.

The problem is apparent, however, on my Windows 8 Tablet

I have the issue on a 32 bit WinXP pro SP3, which ilstalled the lates M$ patehcs yesterday evening, and with the version the OP mentiones
I too get 404 on the latest 2 nightlies (and got on some others too)

Do you have KB2753842 installed? I do...
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2753842

Do you have KB2753842 installed?

Yes just installed it this morning on both machines and my Windows 8 32bit Tablet which is displaying the problem.

It has just occurred to my why my systems aren't displaying the fault - they both have the MuseScore core fonts installed in the fonts directory.

My Windows 8 Tablet doesn't

my Win7 64-bit Laptop doesn#t show the problem. It doesn't have that patch installed either
Not yet, it will shortly...

Edit: and now I have the problem here too

Summary
I seems that Windows Update KB2753842 doesn't let MuseScore display the musical fonts. The problem is only visible in nightlies from 40e5376 and MuseScore 1.2 is not affected. Windows 32 and 64 bit from XP to 8 are affected by the default.

Please tell me if I missed something.

Questions
- Can someone reproduce with an older nightly? (no need to reproduce with younger ones... but I will look into the 404)
- Can someone list the Qt version (About Qt) of the tested nightly?
- Can someone with an affected system make sure that installing the fonts on the system solves the problem?

had the same issue with a ~one week old nightly

Fonts are embedded since the start of MuseScore on Windows. So it's weird it's working with 1.2. But so Qt version is not in cause. It's the conjonction of this Windows Update + embedded font + Qt.

I have just installed the Mscore-20 amd Mscore1-20 fonts on my Windows 8 Tablet.

Nightly Rc0faed4 is now displaying notes properly, whereas the same old nightly build was only displaying stems immediately after the patch was installed..

It is therefore the embedded font which is causing the problem after installing this Windows update, because the same nightly build was working fine before the patch was installed.

This patch is affecting much more than MS. A little searching shows Adobe Flash, CorelDraw, Quark and Xara products are affected, and likely many more. I hope MS withdraws this one soon and re-issues a corrected one. One comment was "It appears that this is an issue with open type that has postscript outlines."

A good read is

http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?60813-Disappearing-Fonts-in-…

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_upda…
Programs like Quark Xpress and Coreldraw on Windows 7 and XP have their Type 1 font handling broken by this patch. Characters larger than 15 pt. become invisible.

That page doesn't display here.

"We are sorry... The page you requested is not available at this time."

try again, I had a stray : at the end of the URL

MuseScore 1.2 is using a TTF font while current nightlies are using a OTF font. The problem of the last windows "fix" is only affecting OTF fonts. Let's see how fast Redmond reacts...

Loggin CorelDraw thread
http://coreldraw.com/forums/t/37077.aspx?PageIndex=3
They contacted Microsoft and are waiting just like us.

For a really quick fix install the Musescore 1.2 versions of the core fonts in your fonts directory

I wouldn't do that... Or don't report any other issue with fonts. There are new glyphs in the 2.0 fonts, the font metric can be different etc.. so it's a pretty bad idea. A less bad idea could be to install the ttf version from github.com https://github.com/musescore/MuseScore/tree/master/fonts but in any case, we need a fix from MS.

We can't heal the world, that's M$'s task ;-)

Well those fonts have been installed on my system without causing problems for nearly a year now.

Initially it was done to solve problems with the display of PDF and SVG files in Serif Drawplus.

Maybe MuseScore defaults to the embedded fonts???

they can't really demand a new compile from every single affected program, can they?

I wouldn't bet on it :)

TEMPORARY work-around which seems to work:

I had the same issue on my wife's PC (32bit, Win7 Pro) where I installed a locally built 2.0 version. She regularly applies Win updates (as I indoctrinated her to do!): MScore 2.0 was working perfectly (well, as 2.0 does, of course!) two days ago, yesterday she applied the Win updates and today it shows this problem.

I installed into Windows the mscore-20.ttf font from the github repository (link given by lasconic in post #21 above) and I can confirm that the display is correct again.

Of course, it is just a temporary work-around, not a real fix, but if you need to go on playing with ver 2.0 while Microsfot patches the patch, it might be useful.

Of course, remember to uninstall the font once the Win update will be fixed.

HTH,

M.

Miwarre I have had these ttf files in my Fonts directory for over a year and they don't seem to have made the slightest difference to MuseScore.

They were put there initially to solve display problems of MuseScore generated PDFs and SVGs in my vector graphics application - Serif Drawplus, but have since been forgotten about until I remembered them when this Microsoft update problem emerged.

Microsoft updated their update page http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2753842 That's pretty fast. Let's see if they come out with a solution, preferably before next patch tuesday, next year.

We are aware of issues related to OpenType Font (OTF) rendering in applications such as PowerPoint on affected versions of Windows that occur after this security update is applied. We are currently investigating these issues and will take appropriate action to address the known issues.

So Adobe must have more clout with MS than Jojo :)

of course, as I have none, nil, zero, nada :-)
But what has dobe to do with this? That pages mentions PowerPoint to have the problem too, not Adobe?
And http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenType claime OFT tp be a Microsoft trademark

Adobe produce Coreldraw and other graphics software affected by this.

Corel is independant and canadian company ;) Adobe is one of their competitor.

I've been hit by this also, tried installing the fonts linked to above, but all the fonts I downloaded would neither display nor install - I just get a "Not a valid font file" from windows. Any ideas?

Never mind, I see I was downloading them incorrectly. You have to install the ttf fonts as well, installing the OpenType versions doesn't work :-(

Microsoft revised their KB2753842 with a 2.0 version just today (December 20th). Can anyone confirm that the revision 2.0 of this patch solves the problem with MuseScore?

Yes, that fixes it.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.